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Volume : III, Issue : IV, May - 2013

MARKETING PERFORMANCE OF FISHER WOMEN IN THE TSUNAMI AFFECTED SEAPORT OF NAGAPATTINAM DISTRICTS, TAMIL NADU STATE IN INDIA

B.VIJAY AND B.NATARAJAN

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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In this paper I examine the impact of coastal women marketing the fish on small-scale fish traders in Nagapattinam Districts of Tamil Nadu, India, with special emphasis on gender and the impact of economic transformation on women fish traders. They encounter tremendous barriers to claim the land that should rightfully be theirs. Having a right to their land also gives women a sort of bargaining power that they wouldn't normally have, in turn, they gain the ability to assert themselves in various aspects of their life, both in and outside of the home. Another way to provide women empowerment is to allocate responsibilities to them that normally belong to men. When women have economic empowerment, it is a way for others to see them as equal members of society. Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered concept. I investigate the relationship of women's work in distribution to production and how this has changed with capitalist development in the early morning Nagapattinam seaport. I argue that because women's role in the fish economy has been overlooked, they have experienced buying and selling the fish within two hours. A qualitative change that has taken place in their relationship to production and marketing as a result of capitalist development.

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B.VIJAY AND B.NATARAJAN, (2013). MARKETING PERFORMANCE OF FISHER WOMEN IN THE TSUNAMI AFFECTED SEAPORT OF NAGAPATTINAM DISTRICTS, TAMIL NADU STATE IN INDIA. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IV, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2434.pdf

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